ACTIVITIES in El Calafate
ADVENTURE TOURISM
This is an ideal area for camping, hiking, and trekking because of its several national parks, mountains, and forests. Climbing mounts Tronador and Lanín and the upright walls of mounts Torre and Fitz Roy is a classical activity which represents a challenge even for expert mountain climbers.
HIKING ON THE PERITO MORENO GLACIER
Beginning with a sail, for around 20 minutes, approximately, rising 60 meter high over the lake level.
Arrive in the Southern side of the glacier and descended along an improvised staircase. The mountain guides will be waiting for you there. They divided us into groups according to language, Spanish or English. After a brief chat in the shelter to coordinate the excursion, we started the hiking, first across a little forest of lengas and ńires and then along the border of the lake to the edge of the ice. The guides will give you the crampons and they will give you the instructions to walk on ice
Dscovering and exploring that incredible white extension. Countless cracks, drains, small lagoons and fragmented ice blocks called seracs, form a boundless and captivating space. A little bit more, and everything turned into the universes of Ray Bradbury. Sparkling whites, deep blues, light crystals. Small waterfalls below us, threads of pure water that invited us to drink. Astonished, we continued, without giving our legs or our amazement a rest.
In the highest point of our journey, we all turned on our feet in order to see the path.
The Hiking will take around 1 Hour and Half
CITY TOUR
In El Calafate you can go on an interesting tour around the town passing by the most traditional places on board of a comfortable vehicle
The circuit includes mainly the streets of the old cask of the town, where you will see some typical buildings of the pioneers times.
The guide will also tell you about the history of these pioneers and show you the fauna and flora, as well as other interesting details tresured in this touristic village.
You will visit Laguna NImez (see outing), only some meters from the coast of Lake argentino, where you can watch the birds through some powerful binoculars at your disposal on the vehicle
Then you will visit the orchards area, where fine fruit like strawberries, cherries, and sour cherries are cultivated with great effort.
You will appreciate the different production techniques transmitted from generation to generation.
You will also pass by Cuevas del Gualichu (see outing), an archaeological site distant 7 km. from the city, where you will see the prints of the first men who inhabitted these lands.
Finally you will stop at the mirador of Virgen de la Paz to contemplate El Calafate from an astonishing viewpoint.
Duration: 2 to 3 hours.
FISHING BY THE GLACIER
Fly-fishing in Lake Roca and the Rico River is a dazzling experience. Large rainbow trout offer intense resistance in the transparent waters of the glacier.
At El Calafate, lovers of sport fishing have the opportunity of enjoying an intense day holding hands with the people from Calafate Fishing, the tour include everything necessary to enjoy the experience.
You will travel along sixty kilometers from the center of the city, visitors will reach the estancias located in the surroundings of the Perito Moreno Glacier, one of the most beautiful spots in the area with an impressive flora and fauna.
There is good fishing from the calving area of the Perito Moreno Glacier, where one-kilogram specimens are fished, with the possibility of catching some lake four-kilogram trout The fishing regulations provide that only one rainbow specimen may be caught per angler and there are no limits for lake trout.
Fly-fishing in the vicinity of the glacier hides a special magic. The deep silence is sporadically interrupted by the echo generated by the calving of the glacier walls located in the distance. The intense sunbeams plot multiple reflections over the crystal-clear waters, which are triggered out in all directions when the fly softly touches the water
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